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Bayan countered by saying that “the PHRC, by prejudging the incident as a mere propaganda tool by Bayan and Karapatan, shows that it has really no intention of uncovering the truth behind the abduction of Roxas and company. The Philippine government is more...
By GLAIZA MAY G. MUZONES and JUAN ANGELO A. HONGO Bulatlat MANILA -- Members of different cause-oriented groups led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance) and the Junk VFA! Movement gathered today at the Plaza Salamanca and, later, the...
By THEA AYLA P. BANAG Migrant Watch Bulatlat Members of the House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs criticized several government agencies for “ignoring the pleas” of Filipino workers who became victims of illegal recruitment in Libya. The Committee held an...
'VFA Has Not Benefited Filipinos'
BY ANNA KRISTINA P. VIRTUSIO Bulatlat MANILA -- Farmers' groups trooped to the House of Representatives in Quezon City Tuesday to denounce the violent dispersal of their camp-out outside the south gate of the Batasan Pambansa Complex last Friday. “We condemn the...
SOLIDARITY STATEMENT ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE RP-US VISITING FORCES AGREEMENT From Vice-President Teofisto Guingona, Jr and Senator Serge Osmena III* for the JUNK VFA Movement activity, Rajah Sulayman Plaza, Manila May 27, 2009 May 27,...
Has the Visiting Forces Agreement served its avowed purpose? Or has it only reinforced the unequal alliance between the Philippines and the United States, a relationship so tilted in the Americans’ favor that to call the VFA an agreement -- with all the word’s connotation of equal rights, benefits and privileges -- would be a travesty?
Honoring Crispin "Ka Bel" Beltran
Press Release/ May 26, 2009 In September 1991, I was one of the tens of thousands of jubilant, soaking wet people who gathered outside the Senate when the historic vote was taken to not renew the bases treaty with the US. It was quite a night, marking the...
Six Months Later, Dead OFW Comes Home
An association of 350 Catholic nuns from 40 congregations in Mindanao expressed outrage over the inclusion of Church people to the reported ‘order of battle’ of the 10th Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. In a document titled “JCICC ‘AGILA’...
The following is the presentation made by lawyer Ameh Sato of the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) during a forum held by Pagbabago! at UP Diliman on May 21. As early as 2002, the Arroyo administration has launched war against its critics in the progressive...
Melissa Roxas, the Filipino-American activist who was abducted along with two others on May 19, purportedly wrote this undated email message. Bulatlat.com is reposting it because it provides a glimpse into her character and might help explain why an American like...
Family of Dead OFW Bewails Gov't Inaction
Farmers File Raps Vs Congress Leaders
Press Release/25 May 2009 Buffeted by heavy rain and gusty winds, more than 200 visitors of the German Kirchentag took about seven hours until they were able to light one candle for each of the 1015 victims of political killings in the Philippines. “Though it is...
Although it is too early to say whether the military is involved in Evelyn Pitao’s murder, Karapatan said they are looking closely into that possibility, given the history of violence the Pitao family had experienced in the hands of security forces.
Whistleblowers, Critics Are Under Fire
MANILA -- In 2007, Melissa Roxas moved to the Philippines to pursue what a colleague of hers described as "human-rights advocacy full-time." Prior to Roxas's move, she had been active as a founding member of the cultural organization Habi-Arts in Los Angeles. She...
Update: Melissa Roxas Moved to Philippines to Pursue Human-Rights Advocacy
Melissa Roxas, from Los Angeles, California, has been reunited with her family. The fate of her two companions -- Juanito Carabeo and John Edward Handoc – is unknown.
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